Unresolved direction of host transfer of Plasmodium vivax v. P. simium and P. malariae v. P. brasilianum

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 209-221

  Tazi, Loubna ^a   Ayala, Francisco J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary history; Host switch; Plasmodium malariae; Plasmodium vivax; Polymorphisms; Recent bottleneck

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME B; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BRASILIANUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM SIMIUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 78650194679     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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